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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Charles Maklin 1697?-1797 John Bartlett

 
1
    The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
          Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.
2
    Every tub must stand upon its bottom. 1
          The Man of the World. Act i. Sc. 2.
 
Note 1.
See Bunyan, Quotation 4. [back]